KaOS 2017.01 Installation and Review on VMware

This tutorial shows KaOS 2017.01 installation and review on VMware Workstation/Player step by step. This tutorial is also helpful to install KaOS Linux on physical computer or laptop hardware. We also install VMware Tools on KaOS Linux for better performance and usability features such as Fit Guest Now, Drag-Drop File and Clipboard Sharing.

KaOS Linux 2017.01 Installation Steps:

1. Download KaOS Linux 2017.01 ISO
2. Create Virtual Machine on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start KaOS Linux Installation
4. Install VMware Tools
5. Test VMware Tools Features: Fit Guest Now, Drag-Drop File and Clipboard Sharing
6. KaOS 2017.01 Review

Installing KaOS 2017.01 and Review on VMware

What is KaOS Linux

KaOS is a desktop Linux distribution that features the latest version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, the Calligra office suite, and other popular software applications that use the Qt toolkit. It was inspired by Arch Linux, but the developers build their own packages. KaOS Linux is built exclusively for 64-bit computer systems.
KaOS Linux Website: https://kaosx.us/

KaOS 2017.01 New Features and Improvements

KaOS 2017.01 is a new stable build of the project's rolling-release, desktop-oriented Linux distribution featuring KDE Plasma 5.8.5. All parts of the Midna artwork have been updated, most notably a new sddm theme that uses a layered QML model. This makes selecting between the default regular Plasma session or optional Wayland much clearer.

There is also a new move to the right vertical panel as the default. As always with this rolling distribution, you will find the very latest packages for the Plasma desktop, this includes Frameworks 5.29.0, Plasma 5.8.5, KDE Applications 16.12.0 and not-yet-released ports of KDE Applications. All built on Qt 5.7.1. Linux 4.8.15 has a change as to how the kernel image is created. Instead of using an install file that only gets called on kernel updates, a new hook file is used.

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